Cork and cap removing device for bottles.



No. 778,968. PATENTED JAN. 3, 1905.

B. HERMAN. CORK AND GAP REMOVING DEVICE FOR BOTTLES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 4, 1904.

WITNESSES INVENTOI? ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES Patented January 3, 190 5.

PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN HERMAN, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

CORK AND CAP REMOVING DEVICE FOR BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 778,968, dated January 3, 1905.

I Application filed May 4:, 1904. Serial No. 206,272.

To (all ZUhO'I'Ib it puny concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN HERMAN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Cincinnati, county of Hamilton, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cork and Cap Removing Devices for Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of corkdrawing devicesin which a strap passes around and beneath the cork and is inserted with the same into the neck of the bottle for the purpose of removing it when it is desired.

The object of my invention is to improve such devices, so that access of the air rendered more free by reason of the strap or cord is out 01f, in which capillary attraction is prevented, and in which there is an easy method of removing both cap and cork at one operation, and in which a surreptitious use of the bottle is prevented. This object is attained by the means described in the specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bottle supplied with a cork and cap removing device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a central sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but showing the same in the process of removing the cap. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective View of the cork.

Referring to the parts, cork A has a cord B with enlarged and tasseled ends I) b, and which is secured centrally to the bottom of the cork and passes thence up on each side of the cork. When the cork is inserted in the neck of the bottle C, the ends of the cord are dropped down upon diametrically opposite sides of the bottle-neck. The cap D is then spun down over the cork, the bottle-neck, and the cordv B. Around the ends of the cord and below the lower end of the capa circular paper band E is then placed. When it is desired to remove the cap and cork, the ends Z) I) of the cord are grasped and pulled upward in opposite directions, thereby breaking the band E and splitting the cap D, marring them both in a manner such as to render them unfit for a second use. A continuation of the movement pulls out the cork.

The advantages of this construction are several. The cap prevents the access of air to the interior of the bottle, which otherwise would be rendered more free by reason of the cords passing down alongside of the cork than it would be with a plain cork. The cap being spun down upon the cord compresses it along its entire length, so as to interfere with the effect of capillary attraction, which would otherwise cause the fluid in the bottle to drip from the ends of the cord.

What I claim is- The combination of a bottle, a cork in the neck of the bottle, a cord passing down upon each side of the cork and beneath the same and down upon the outside of the neck of the bottle at diametrically opposite points, a cap spun down over the cork, the cord and the neck of the bottle, a secondary band secured about the neck of the bottle beneath the cap and over the cords substantially as shown and described.

BENJAMIN HERMAN.

Witnesses:

W. F. MURRAY,

A. MoCoRMAoK. 

